Treating your Hammond 'the nice way', Prog at the BBC series

[paulj0557]

Saw this today. Pretty cool-

[jdoc]

very Nice video, a Hammond roll model (to an L anyways)

[paulj0557]

Followed by a roll model for a Mellotron...my god, what an amazingly well orchestrated reprise!

http://youtube.valami.info/slice_lin...on&autoplay=on

...but the best reprise follows this Hammond solo

[Wes]

Interesting, it seems the 50Hz motors sound different re-synchronizing than the 60Hz ones.

[tdintbl]

The reasons I play Hammond and Mellotron myself! Thanks for posting this vid!

[Jim Dep]

Thanks for posting the Pink Floyd vid! I was hearing the reiteration effect like my N321 has and was wondering how he was doing that. Then I discovered he was playing the other keyboard. The big one in the middle. What is that keyboard ?

I was just telling my friend a week ago that the N gets good early Pink Floyd sounds. Now I have a video to back it up (even though it's obviously not a N). The N series does get some nice sounds for certain types of music. Pink Floyd is one of them, Country Joe & the Fish is another. Good organ for psychedelic rock.

[paulj0557]

Not sure where the Pink Floyd video is you are referring to. Was it on this thread? You are welcome anyway. Here is a Pink Floyd must see-

[kurtisthall]

David O'List from the Nice played guitar for Floyd on their first American tour because Syd Barrett was unable to perform most nights due to his problems. Rick Wright played a Farfisa Custom Compact ??? maybe? on the early stuff. The "T" series has the reiteration which pulls off the "Astonomy Domanie" effect.

[paulj0557]

Here is Celestial Voices - Pink Floyd - Richard Wright - Farfisa Compact Duo Organ Part
I sold my Compact FAST 4 a couple months ago. It was just sitting there not being played like it should and I knew there would be some really really smart person in a band that would be dying to have it.These are incredible sounding organs! So I sold it for a very fair price somewhere around $300, I forget exactly so it must have been less than it was really worth. I redid all of the key felt by custom die cutting every little round felt plug under each key. Then I polished every key using compounds and a drill press mounted buffing wheel ( which I recommend over a high speed horizontal type). You can use fine sand paper to remove blemishes, but if you ever do this be sure you test the plastic first by trying the lower side edge of a key.




Let me tell you, kids don't flock to vintage keyboards like other musical gear. So this is why I say really really smart person...and they can be any age. It was worth it to me selling it to the second kid. The first one was afraid of a few mild quirks so I didn't even tell the second kid that looked at it, but I did ask if he was mechanical or would take it to someone. He didn't care! The organ jammed and everything played note wise. You just get some odd quirks on keyboards like this like having a voice drop in volume if you add a particular combination of tabs. In all actuality I think the organ worked 100% minus 1 octave of 4' flutes. The second kid didn't see that as an issue especially for the price. The first kid offered $175 and I said I'd fix it 'perfect and call him back if he'd pay what I was asking, but I wouldn't hold off any other offers. He lost because I sold it the next day to a really really smart kid. Yeah' I know I'm a dummy for selling it. LOL

Sorry if I am drifting away from the thread, but if it's taking us into the nether regions of Compact Duo's it can't be all bad.

[kurtisthall]

Nice job. I love Floyd, Purple, Heep, etc...